Charisma Cardz Meets Die Cuts Crazy Anything Goes Challenge and Blog Hop

Welcome to the Charisma Cardz Meets Die Cut Crazy Special Challenge & Blog Hop. Our Wonderful design team have this week teamed up with the wonderful Magazine Die cut Crazy to bring you some wonderful inspiration from the world of Die Cutting and also a fab packed April Edition which is avalible for download on all IOS Apple Devices via the Newstand & in PDF format from the website! Our designers have made some wonderful Easter and Spring projects to inspire your own  crafting with your die cuts.

This week at Charisma we have an ‘ANYTHING GOES’ Challenge where you can join in by linking or emailing charisma with your cards/designs and of course as always there are some fabulous prizes to be won which the winners will be announced next week on the blog and featured in next months issue of Die Cut Crazy.

As well as this we have a fabulous blog hop show casing all the designers which you should have a look around! And for each comment you leave at each stop we’ll be drawing some random winners for prizes!

If you just joined our hop, be sure and go back to the Charisma Cardz Challenge Blog to start from the beginning!

Items used:

Papermania ready made stepper card
Magnolia Tilda image coloured with Promarkers
Dies and Punches - Spellbinders floral oval die, MS doily punch, Joy Craft daisy punch, Doohicky fence and MB elegant scroll
Papermania ribbon

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Cutie Pie - Dies and Punches
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Marvellous Magnolia - Ribbon or Bow
Allsorts - Use Dies
Ribbon Girl - Magnolia Challenge

Thanks for stopping by the Charisma Cardz Meets Die Cut Crazy Magazine Blog Hop & Challenge . I hope my project inspires you to create your own Spring/Easter project.  Please leave a comment to let me know you stopped by.Next up in the hop is  Mandy and her wonderful blog can be found here.

 If you just joined the hop, here is a list of designers so you don't miss any. 

Charisma – www.charismacardz.blogspot.com
Carlyann – www.sweetncrafty.blogspot.com
Emma Pountney – http://tinyurl.com/m42q998
Me! – www.sarahshandmadecardsx.blogspot.co.uk
Mandy – www.mandysparkles.blogspot.com
Marie – www.cardmakingmazza.blogspot.co.uk
Jo  - www.determinedcrafter.blogspot.co.uk
Vee- www.bearykrafti.blogspot.com
Susan – www.mixamatoasties.blogspot.co.uk
Die cut crazy facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Die-Cut-Crazy-Magazine/552327878152647?ref=ts&fref=ts
Lorraine – www.travellingcolours.com
Emma – www.emgoescardmaking.blogspot.co.uk
Tina – www.tinamarie997.blogspot.co.uk
Dianne Grayson – (will be posted on www.diecutcrazymag.com) Anna Bradshaw - craftwithanna.blogspot.com Eemeli – www.eemelike.blogspot.com
Stacey – www. lasatas.blogspot.co.uk/
Natalie – http://ngcards.blogspot.co.uk

Big hugs Sarahxx

Charisma Cardz DT Card - Birthday Girls

Good morning and today we have a great new challenge for you at Charisma Cardz and it is Birthday Girls.  I have made an easel card using a gorgeous Magnolia Tilda image:

Items used:-

Magnolia Tilda image coloured with Promarkers

First Edition papers

Dies/Punches: Spellbinders elegant ovals, X-Cut labels, MS butterfly punch
Flowers and pearls from stash

We have 3 great sponsors this week:
Bugaboo Stamps, Pink Cat Studio The Stamping Chef

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:-

Papertake Weekly - bingo: gems, die cuts and flowers

Divas by Design - Lets see your Magnolias

ABC - G for Girls

Please pop over to the Charisma Cardz for some more inspiration from my teamies.

Have a great day whatever you are doing.

Hugs Sarahxx

Wee Stamps Peggy Birthday Card

Good morning and today I have a card to share with you using a real cutie called Peggy, and she is a topper from the Hobby House:

Items used:-

Wee Stamps Peggy topper from The Hobby House

Papermania capsule papers

Dies/Punches: Spellbinders eyelet circles, Memory Box flowers and banner

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:-

The Hobby House Challenge - Anything Goes
Cutie Pie - Spots/Dots
ABC - F for Flowers
Cute Card Thursday - Clever Cutting
Papertake Weekly - Lovely Layers

Have a great day whatever you are doing.

Hugs Sarahxx

Charisma Cardz DT - Inspired by a Movie

Good morning and today we have a great new challenge for you at Charisma Cardz and it is Inspired by a Movie. I was lucky enough to get to use this fab image by Bugaboo and here is my card which has been inspired by the 2001 movie Rock Star starring Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston!:

Items used:-

Bugaboo image coloured with Promarkers

DCWV papers

Dies/Punches: X Cut stars and spellbinders squares

We have 2 great sponsors this week: Bugaboo and Digistamp Boutique 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:-

Allsorts - colours beginning with "b"
Crafty Cardmakers - A mans world
Whoopsi Daisy - Include a Sentiment
Challenges for Everybody - Anything Goes

Please pop over to the Charisma Cardz for some more inspiration from my teamies.

Have a great day whatever you are doing and I hope that everyone is staying safe after all this terrible weather that we are having.

Hugs Sarahxx

Cute Party Paws Valentines Card

Good evening and I am here to share a quick Valentine card I have made for my youngest Ben for his girlfriend - they are 11!

I would like to add my card into the following challenges:-

The Cutie Pie Challenge - Cute Valentine
Papertake Weekly - Anything goes
Ladybug Crafts - For the one I love
Crafty Catz - Anything Goes
Allsorts - Love is in the Air
Gem of A Challenge - Love is all you Need

Hugs Sarahxx

Charisma Cardz DT card - Its a Boy Thing

Hello and I hope everyone is well.

Today we have a great new challenge for you at Charisma Cardz and it is A Boy Thing and here is my card using one of the fab LOTV toppers:

We have 2 great sponsors this week:

Sassy Studio Designs and Delicious Doodles

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:-

LOTV - Anything Goes
Totally Gorjuss - Manly
Dream Valley - Boys/Men

Please pop over to the Charisma Cardz for some more inspiration from my teamies.

Have a great day whatever you are doing.

Hugs Sarahxx

Charisma Cardz DT 5th Birthday Celebrations

Happy New Year and I would like to wish all my followers a happy, healthy and prosperous 2014.  I hope everyone had a great Christmas and I can't believe it is all over now for another year I am back to work today.  I have been a bad blogger recently so my New Year's resolutions include being a better one and also to lose weight and keep fit (once all the Christmas chocs have been eaten of course!).

Today we have our own celebration over at Charisma Cardz as it is our 5th birthday and we have lots of great sponsors so why not join us in our birthday celebration.  Here is my card and I have used a gorgeous image from one of our fab sponsors Time for Tea:-

Items used:-

Time for Tea image coloured with Promarkers

Papermania papers

Dies/Punches: X cut rectangle, Quickutz flourish and MS butterfly

Flowers and gems from stash

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:-

Creative Craft Challenge - Anything Goes
CRAFT - Anything Goes

Please pop over to the Charisma Cardz for some more inspiration from my teamies and we would love you to join in our 5th birthday celebrations.

Hugs Sarahxx